Silicon Valley Programming School

USACO February 2025 Solutions

Enjoy these solutions for the February 2025 USACO contest! These solutions use TIPS (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) to make the problem solving phase more systematic.

Bronze

• Problem 1. Reflection
• Problem 2. Making Mexes
• Problem 3. Printing Sequences

Silver

• Problem 1. The Best Lineup
• Problem 2. Vocabulary Quiz
• Problem 3. Transforming Pairs

Gold and Platinum:

Please reach out directly to akim.kumok@svprog.school with the problem you’re interested in and your thinking on it. For these, a better understanding of where specifically you got stuck can be especially helpful in giving the most useful TIP.